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The Nation: Disposable Soldiers by Joshua Kors

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For three years The Nation has been reporting on military doctors' fraudulent use of "personality disorder" to discharge wounded soldiers. PD is a severe mental illness that emerges during childhood and is listed in military regulations as a pre-existing condition, not a result of combat. Thus those who are discharged with PD are denied a lifetime of disability benefits, which the military is required to provide wounded soldie
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